Findings Quotes by Cherrie Moraga

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom…

— Cherrie Moraga

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

— Cherrie Moraga

Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

— Cherrie Moraga

The revolution begins at home.

— Cherrie Moraga

“Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see the same impulse in my students-the dark, the queer,…

— Cherrie Moraga

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

— Cherrie Moraga

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you…

— Cherrie Moraga

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

— Cherrie Moraga

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

— Cherrie Moraga

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

— Cherrie Moraga

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

— Cherrie Moraga

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

— Cherrie Moraga